[agents] ACEC2014 - Call for Papers

[Usman Wajid]

ACEC - Call for Papers



12th Adaptive Computing (and Agents) for Enterprise Collaboration (ACEC) @ IEEE WETICE2014 June 23 - 25, 2014 Parma, Italy.
http://acec.portals.mbs.ac.uk/



** Overview **

The autonomy and intelligence of software agents have greatly enhanced automation in many operational domains. A major benefit of using agents is the ability to assist in the collaboration among humans and software mechanisms, alike. Agent-enacted collaboration can be extremely helpful in areas such as Computer Supported Collaborative Work, Workflow and Supply Chain Management, Automation in Virtual Enterprises, and Automated Distributed Component Composition.



The forthcoming 12th episode of the Agent-based Computing for Enterprise Collaboration (ACEC) will concentrate on two main themes:



# Adaptive and Agent-based Services

# Agent-based Techniques for Organizational/Enterprise Use of Emerging Web Paradigms (Cloud, Crowd-Sourcing, Mobile Apps)



These two themes represent important areas where software agents can leverage their distributed nature along with their proactive and autonomous characteristics to provide solutions for complex problems which are difficult to address using traditional/existing technologies. With the popularity and pervasiveness of services in the emerging digital world, enterprises must carefully evaluate how to make their services openly accessible. Furthermore, it is important for enterprises to learn how to exploit the services of others while taking into account the unexpected circumstances and changing scenarios, which frequently occur in business ecosystems.



In both of these (above given) contexts, software agents can play an important role. In this respect, ACEC 2014 intends to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss the key issues, approaches, open problems, innovative applications, and trends in this research area. We enthusiastically solicit papers that address agent mediation and management of services and/or products of on-line businesses.



** Topics **

Topics of interests include but are not limited to:

*         Adaptive and/or agent-mediated workflow, supply chain, or virtual enterprises

*         Methodologies, languages and tools to support agent collaboration

*         Agent architectures and infrastructures for dynamic collaboration

*         Adaptive and/or Agent-based service architectures and infrastructures

*         Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based on agents

*         Services for dynamic agent collaboration

*         Agent-to-Human service interactions

*         Autonomous, Adaptive and/or Agent-mediated service integration

*         Organizational and enterprise systems that leverage Web 2.0

*         Adaptive and Agent-mediated cloud environments



** Important Dates **

Deadline for paper submission:                 04  Feb 2014

Decision to paper authors:                           14 March 2014

Camera Ready papers due to IEEE:           11 April 2014

23th IEEE WETICE-2011 conference:         23 - 25 June 2014



** Paper Submission **

Details about submission will be posted on the ACEC website (http://acec.portals.mbs.ac.uk/).
Accepted papers will be published in IEEE proceedings.



On Behalf of Track Organisers,

Dr. Usman Wajid
School of Computer Science
The University of Manchester